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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes attend the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project Benefit Gala on Thursday night held at NYC’s Altman Building on W. 18th St.
The program, based on principles developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, was co-founded by Cruise in 2002 and aids the New York police, firefighters and paramedics of Sept. 11.
“Nearly six years later, many are still paying a price for their heroic service at the World Trade Center. This is a profound injustice,” Tom said before the dinner. “This project has demonstrated that recovery is not only possible, but an incontrovertible fact.”
“He said how grateful he was to everyone for supporting the project,” said Patrick Bahnken, president of the New York Fire Department’s union of emergency workers and paramedics, told the New York Post. “He took time out to speak to every person. It took him an hour to get through the hallway. He was talking to everyone. It was genuine, nothing phony about it.”
The press was barred from the private dinner. Tickets cost $6,250 each.
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“He looks like Ellen Degeneres with dark hair” ROTFLMAO!! Did you look at the closeup of his face - ewwwwwwwwwwww. He was goodlooking once, not any more. Its not just age cause Paul Newman still looks good and he is ancient. Tom’s hair looks like one of those badly made Korean wigs.
Whats with Kates hairline..it is receding..she is in serious need of a hairstyle as well. He needs to cut his back to the Maverick stage…and we can all fall in love with him again..He needs to stop marrying women taller than he is…I adore him..and wish him well…we will see if there ever is a Baby #2….
Tom will not stop until he has converted every man, woman, child, and dog to his cult!
Katie looks so pretty. So well dressed.
I’m confused….Is Tom now the head of Scientology?
It’s great that Tom is helping Sept. 11 victims, but I still feels he’s got his own motives behind what he does.
I think it’s great that Tom is helping the Sept. 11 victims, but I still can’t help but feel he has his own personal interest behind the whole thing.
http://www.supload.com/vid/Entertainment+show+coverage+of+Detox+Gala./1160582951/wmv/
At least the people helped recognise his efforts. He is better than those of you who are seated here doing nothing to help those guys but only criticisng those who are trying to help. No one is forcing these people to have these treatment and if they want the scientific methods, they are welcome to have them. It is not a complusory project and the reason some of those NY state people were against it is because they are threatened by alternative medicine. People like Bloomberg are giants in the Pharmaceutical industry and look at alternative medicine as a threat to their wealth.
Thanks Tom for helping out.
He may have a personal interest. am sure he would rather people used scientology but I do not think it is for an underlying greed or self advancement. I think he genuinely believes that scientology will imporve many people’s lives.
I like that Katie was best dressed star of the week. You may not like her style, but it is the trend and you will catch on.
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beijos do Brasil
why is someone posting in Portuguese on an english “speaking” site????
ANYWAY, educate yourselves people. Tom is #2 in command in Scientology. I think you’ll find this interesting
Hubbard’s basic assumption was that humanity was divided into hustlers and suckers, and he was going to be one of the former. Those gullible enough and stupid to believe his claims deserved to be exploited. Identifying potential customers meant looking for hardships and vulnerability in people and preying, in Hubbard’s own words on “the bereaved or injured” (Wallis, 1977, p. 158). The predatory nature of the organization is revealed in this early stage, with Hubbard searching for weaknesses and suffering in others, and using them for profit. In the polio victims story what we see is a criminal mind and a sadistic imagination at work, showing the facility with which he makes up new ploys and con games. This is Hubbard’s version of Barnum’s Law, which is also his Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are the polio victims, for theirs is the right to build Hubbard’s empire with their money. There are millions of suckers out there, the bereaved and injured, just waiting to be exploited. Only one motive can be detected in this story, and that is profit. The basic motive is not malevolence, but profit. The commercial exploitation of suffering and despair is the Bridge to Total Freedom. Hubbard wanted very much to live beyond the reach of the law or the tax collector. This may be a common fantasy, but only a few try to turn it into reality. An illegal business wants and needs protection from any legal interference, but Hubbard wanted not just protection, but real immunity, and the religion label could give you this kind of immunity.
What we have discovered is that the September 2001 incident was not isolated but rather embedded in a consistent and unmistakable historical pattern. It demonstrated again that the Scientology organization is motivated and driven solely by sales and marketing considerations. What has been experienced by all of us as a global nightmare was viewed by Scientology only as a great marketing opportunity. The pathetic lies offered by Scientology once it has been exposed were true to character.
TO FUG FACE:
You may want to think long and hard about something VERY important
you think TC is so great because he “helped” those firefighters, right?
They also swarmed all over those grieving students at Virginia Tech HOURS after the tradgedy.
ASK YOURSELF…….WHY hasn’t TC or the COS helped the victims of Katrina, one of the BIGGEST natural disasters in the U.S.
you know why they have never reached out to those people??
THERE IS NO MONEY IN IT
NY/Manhattan=MONEY
Virginia college=MONEY
poor mostly black=NO MONEY
something to think about
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